With apologies for the short notice but at 10:30 this morning, on the Talking Pictures television channel, there is being shown a 25 minute documentary film entitled 'The History of Shippams of Chichester'. Hopefully it will be worth watching.
Addendum. The film, which was made in 1954, was well worth watching. There was little about the history of the compamy but it well illustrated the 1954 production process, from sourcing the raw materials through preparation, cooking, production, bottling, labelling and packing to shipping. Curiously (at least to the modern eye) the production process was entirely in the hands of male employees until the bottling stage was reached. Only at that point and subsequently did one see female employees. But this was 67 years ago. As L.P.Hartley said: 'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there'! Unfortunately the film does not appear to be scheduled for another showing during the next three weeks.
